Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome triloba
Common name
A daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland. North of the Hume and Illawarra Highways. Occasionally farther south.
Notes
Perennial herb with stems to 0.35 m long, sprawling to weakly erect, hairless. Rhizomatous. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 0.7-7.5 cm long, 0.5-19 mm wide, hairless or with very occasional glandular hairs, margins usually entire, occasionally with with 1-5 (mostly 3) lobes at the tips, the middle lobe much larger than the other two. Flower heads with about 21-30 or more 'petals' about 7-7.5 mm long, pink, mauve, or blue to purple, and yellow centres about 6-7 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads in one row. Flowers throughout the year.
Was Brachyscome angustifolia, Brachyscome linearifolia.
Definite identification of most species of Brachyscome depends on microscopic examination of the seeds.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~triloba (accessed 6 January, 2021)
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